On: Hacker Hacker News - see just the programming/math/science links from HN

[jrockway]

Excellent work; I am worried that I am going to have to start my own social news site to get away from all the time-wasting general interest stuff here. This will save me from having to do that for a while.

[ersi → jrockway]

That doesn't sound very social. Aren't most programming/math/science also "time-wasting", so to speak?

[jrockway → ersi]

People want to read about programming. Right now, there are three options:

* News.YC, which rarely has articles about programming anymore (perhaps one or two a day).

* Programming Reddit, whose commentators think every article is a jab at The One True Idea, which they seem to think is PHP.

* Lambda the Ultimate, which only covers a small area of programming; language design and implementation

I want a site like LtU but with a broader appeal.

[scott_s → jrockway]

On the front page right now, there are eight programming submissions, and nine web development submissions.

(There is overlap with the programming and web development, but something like usability guidelines fits in web development but not programming. By my definition, anyway.)

[jules → jrockway]

> * Lambda the Ultimate, which only covers a small area of programming; language design and implementation

Implementation (!= Programming Language Theory) is off topic for LTU, unfortunately.

[Andys → jrockway]

I came to news.yc because I wanted to read about startups. There are very few % of articles about startups now.

(I am sticking around because of the general interest articles which is what I used to visit reddit for before it became too popular)